Mohammad Qutub – Stories of the Quran – Haroot and Maroot Fallen Angels
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And today,
we start from there,
the story of because
here,
your head will spin as well.
The story of Harut al Ma'ud.
Of course, we said the correct opinion, O
Allahu Ala, is that they are indeed angels,
even though there
are a lot of Mufasaerim who said otherwise,
because they were trying to exonerate the angels
from teaching
magic.
And furthermore,
this was given to them by Allah.
We mentioned the opinion of Ibad Bhattawari and
many others,
that this is all a test from Allah
Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. And Allah gave it to
them as a test.
So,
and we will get to that part.
Harut and Mamt.
Who are they? Is there a story
behind them?
We mentioned the opinion of Imam Ibn Isha
and others, that Harut and Ma'ud's time is
way back from before the time of Nuhar
alaihis salam.
So there's a huge
time span between the time of Prophet Sulaiman
and
Al Malakim Biba Bilaru to Mawd.
There are many narrations
that give us a story that goes something
like this:
When Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala created
Adam and
then sent him down,
The
Allah
allowed the angels to see what the human
beings were doing on earth.
So they were amazed.
And they said to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
Look at everything that they're doing despite
all of your blessings upon them, oh Allah.
So he said to them,
if I send you down
in a similar way that I sent them,
you would do the same.
Meaning that obviously Allah Subha Ta'ala in that
case would give them
the same desires
that human beings have,
and would also
be
subject to the insinuations and whispering of the
shaytan and the shayateen for that matter.
So
the angels chose
2
of them,
Hawat and Mawt,
to be sent down.
And Allah
commanded them
not to worship anyone but Him,
not to steal, not to drink,
not
to commit fornication,
not to kill, and so on.
The story goes that
as they were busy
judging between people,
a woman came
complaining about her husband.
And they saw her, and they were attracted
to her, and they desired her.
And when they asked her,
she said she refused.
She said, Until you worship an idol, and
you drink alcohol.
Some narrations mentioned that they first refused,
but eventually,
they did that
in order for Ayad Abla to commit fornication
with her.
So they drank alcohol,
they worshiped idols,
and
they committed fornication.
And because someone was passing by that might
expose them,
they killed him.
So the narration mentions that in 1 day,
they had done everything
that was prohibited upon man.
And they are the ones that were shocked
by what human beings were doing.
Upon that,
they taught her
words,
maybe words of magic that she could say
in order to ascend into the heavens.
And when she made her ascent into the
heavens,
she forgot the words that would bring her
back down, and therefore Allah
turned her into
a planet or a star.
Okay? The narration mentions that her name in
Arabic is Zuhrah.
Okay?
The,
the planet that we know, Khalkab Zuhra.
For them,
they were not able to go back
and ascend into the heavens. And therefore, they
stayed on earth, and they taught people magic.
This is the
basic idea of the story behind Hawut and
Hawut
that you may read in a lot of
the books of tafsir.
Of course,
scholars had issues with this narration.
It smacks
clearly
of the stories of B'nai Israel
with a lot of strange things
that,
may lead scholars
to say this is weak, just based on
the content rather than the chain of narration.
On the other hand,
it has been narrated by many.
Narrated by some of the Sahaba as well,
ibn Abbas and Abdullah ibn
Mas'ud, Abdullah ibn Ummam,
and of course many of the targeting, like
Mujahid and Qatada,
Asudi
and Rabi, and others. Okay?
When,
looking at the many different ways
that this was narrated,
Imam Ibn Hajar
believes
that
there's some foundation for the story. It's not
completely fabricated.
Even though scholars of hadith may
accuse ibn Hajab, Al Aqibayullah, of being a
little bit
easy and flexible when it comes to judging
the authenticity of narrations.
Ibn Kathir
comments on this,
and, or before that,
when you look at the different narrations,
you may find
that actually,
when you look at all of them, it's
not correct to attribute any of this to
the Prophet
But possibly to Abdullah ibn Umar.
Who took it from whom?
Ta'Abil Akbar.
Who is, of course, 1 of those who
came, 1 of the the the Jewish scholars
who came to Islam,
and is known for narrating
many of these stories of Bani Israel.
So
you go this way, you go that way,
in the end, it seems to be based
on the narration of Kaab al Abbar. So
it is Israeliat,
at the end it is Israeliat. And this
is why Ibn Kathir says, yes, it has
been narrated by many of the Tabi'im, and
as I told you, even some of the
sahara.
He mentions it has been narrated by many
of the Tabi'een,
but it is clearly of the Ikhmar of
Bani Salil,
and there is no authentic
narration
from
the 1 who does not speak of his
own volition or of his own desire, the
Prophet
Nothing is properly and correctly attributed
to him. And therefore, he says, Allah mentions
it in brief, without any detail. We believe
in it as Allah mentioned
it with and we are not,
obligated
to believe that
everything else that happened that we just mentioned.
And indeed,
of course, as you can see, the the
embellishment
in the narration is very clear. Right? Furthermore,
it does seem to,
contradict
the
rasma
of the Malaika in this aspect. That the
we believe that the angels do not
sin or disobey Allah Of course,
the retort might be of someone who says
otherwise, is that this was an exception and
that Allah made the plight of the human
being, so it's kind of an exception, But
as we said, when you look at the
whole narration,
there's a lot there that makes it hard
to believe. And this is the difference, subhanAllah,
between the fabricated narrations
and a lot of these embellished stories of
Bani Sahayin, and what is actually true and
authentic.
What is actually true and authentic is usually
immediately
believable
and logical. It's easy to swallow and accept,
as opposed to some of,
these stories. So it seems, Wallahu Alai, that
at least the way it has been mentioned
is not true. Are they fallen angels?
As this narration seems to indicate,
Umaha.
Umaha. Maybe they are fallen angels. Maybe that
part is correct, which is that the angels
were shocked and Allah allowed them to,
try it. But
maybe without the rest of the details about
meeting a woman and killing that man and
and all of that. Are they fallen angels?
It's
a it's an issue about which scholars,
may differ. By the way, other,
narrations mention that they were
When they sit on earth and they were
teaching magic, they were punished by being
hanged from their feet.
And you will find pictures online
of them being
hanged by their feet.
And you will find stories also amongst the
Jews, about 2 fallen angels.